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Most Important Acronyms in English

The 100 most important acronyms 

Part 1. General acronyms

We're starting an article series on the 100 most important acronyms that are used in the English language.

When “Mixed” Isn’t Enough

Why We Need Better Terms For People Who Identify As Two Or More Races

(by Nicole Hollida)

When I was a kid, I always just assumed that everyone in the world called people like me “mixed,” because in the 1990s in central Ohio, where I grew up, mixed almost always referred to folks like me, who had one black parent and one white parent.

41 unique ways to practice listening to English

Our PhraseMix Premium service gives you a super-easy way to improve your English by listening to key example sentences. But there are lots of other ways to practice listening to English, if you're willing to put in the time and effort. We've pulled together a big list of 41 interesting ways that you can improve your listening skill.

Blond vs. Blonde: What’s The Difference

Grammatical gender* is an unfamiliar concept to some native English speakers.

Empowering Quotes About Education

"Blunder" meaning

Blunder meaning. Have you ever heard someone say mistakes are good?  
Oscar Wilde once said: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. 

What Is a Schwa?

The schwa is a vowel sound that appears in unstressed syllables and kind of sounds like "uh." It's also been called the murmur vowel, the indeterminate vowel, the neutral vowel, the obscure vowel, and the natural vowel. This scene from "The Princess Bride" will help you understand the schwa.

Business phrases for meetings

Useful English Phrases For Running A Business Meeting

Here’s a question for you: In what world do “baraag,” “toot,” “toerroe,” “baaa,” “paoh-paoh,” and “u-u-u” all mean the same thing?

Love is...

Can We Call Products “Meat” or “Milk” If They Don’t Come From An Animal?

There’s a funny scene in the 2002 romcom My Big Fat Greek Wedding in which the main character, Toula, introduces her fiancé to her aunt and explains that he’s a vegetarian. The aunt asks what that means, and when he replies that it means he doesn’t eat meat, she says in shock, “What do you mean you don’t eat no meat?”

What is casual speech?

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Casual speech is a way of talking that you use with people that you are close to and trust. There are different words, phrases, and ways of speaking that you can use with your friends, your family members, and with people who are a similar age, social status, and personality to you.

9 women immortalized in the English language

Meet nine women whose names and creations live on in our words.

The Pompadour
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, aka the Marquise de Pompadour
Before there was “Becky with the good hair,” there was Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, a French noblewoman better known as the Marquise de Pompadour—and mistress of French King Louis XV. She’s credited with originating the pompadour hairstyle all the way back in the 1700s! In those days before Bumpits, a pad (sometimes, horrifyingly, called a “rat”) was commonly used to create a pompadour with greater height. Pompadour wasn’t only a style icon—she also wielded significant influence over Louis XV.

Improve Your English Communication Skills

6 Ways to Immediately Improve Your English Communication Skills

’Words don’t come easy.’

You may have memorized endless lists of vocabulary, you may know all the grammar needed to hold any conversation and still find yourself at a loss when wanting to express yourself.

Learn A Valuable Lesson From These Quotes

1. “You cannot open a book without learning something.”  -  Confucius

2. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -  Mahatma Gandhi

3. “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” -  Albert Einstein

4. “We learn from failure, not from success!”   -  Bram Stoker, Dracula

The naked truth about exercise words

The Naked Truth

You’ve been going to the gym, and you even bought some new workout clothes to wear there. Good for you for not being so literal. If you strip down the etymology of “gymnasium,” you’ll find that it comes from the Greek word gymnásion, which is related to the word gymnázesthai, meaning “to train in the nude.” (The Greek word gumnos means “naked.”)

What are the spelling mistakes in these tattoos?

1. A love thicker then blood

The Night Before Christmas

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Merry Christmas Everyone!
I’m going to revive the famous poem, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. This is an iconic poem, written with some old style grammar and vocabulary, that we often hear at Christmas.
The Night Before Christmas.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house